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'"If you’re poisoned by a nerve agent, it’s forever," Mirzayanov said, citing the case of his friend and fellow GosNIIOKhT employee, the late Andrei Zheleznyakov, who was accidentally poisoned by a novichok.'

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'After three years and seven months in the Ramo Verde military prison outside Caracas, López was released to house arrest last summer on the condition that he remain silent. Instead, he spent the past six months in daily communication with me, recording dozens of interviews over encrypted channels about his country, his captivity and his evolving political philosophy.'

Wil Hylton's interviews with Lopez and the background to them were chronicled in Monday and Tuesday's episodes of The Daily.